peilt
[paɪ̯lt]
The verdict
“peilt” is uncommon German (frequency #67,582 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,582
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs peilen
Corpus desk
Index DE-peilt · peilt · German
peilt · rank #67,582 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,582
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH pathologisch
Nearest frequency peer: pathologisch (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „peilt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- parent
parent
32,424 corpus weight
- pathologisch
pathologisch
32,420 corpus weight
- peilt
peilt
32,419 corpus weight
- pensionierte
pensionierte
32,418 corpus weight
- Personalchef
Personalchef
32,417 corpus weight
- Pferdemarkt
Pferdemarkt
32,415 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „peilt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peilt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [paɪ̯lt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „peilt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
peilt is uncommon German at frequency #67,582 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [paɪ̯lt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
peilt doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is peilt, spelled P-E-I-L-T.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs peilen
- 22. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs peilen
- 32. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs peilen
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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